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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary

Books of Interest: Habermas An Intellectual Biography by Matthew G. Specter, Central Connecticut State University

http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item5562860/Habermas/?site_locale=… Read Peter E. Gordon’s review in The New Repulic: http://www.tnr.com/book/review/zero-hour-jurgen-habermas#.T7e1YaGGfdo.twitter  

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Books of Interest:Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America by Paul E. Gottfried, Elizabethtown College

  http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6585778/?site_locale=en_US See this review in The American Conservative, quite surprising. Thank you to Arts and Letters Daily and  Kenneth B. McIntyre.

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Books of Interest: Science and Religion in Quest of Truth by John Polkinghorne F.R.S. K.B.E.

A review in the TLS of May 18,2012 by Mark Vernon titled New Causes brought me to this book. Mr. Plokinghorne is both scientist and theologin. 

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Billy Strayhorn by Herman Leonard

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David Brooks, Economic Fabulist by American Litterateur

Mr. David Brooks is a propagandist of certain talent and a man given to self-serving political characterizations, indeed he expresses a positive mania for renaming. Should we consider him a Nominalist? In his essay of May 7, 2012 titled The … Continue reading →

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The Dissent Papers Review by John H. Brown, PhD.

http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2012/0106/bk/book_brown_dissent.html  

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On the defeat of Richard Lugar by Publius

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/may/08/text-sen-richard-lugars-two-primary-election-state/ Even if Sen. Richard Lugar represents the Eisenhower Republican in it's most compromised form, he still represented the political as the art of compromise,in the realm of civic actors who placed the preservation and well being of the Republic … Continue reading →

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“No child of the republic will be abandoned.” Francois Hollande

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/06/francois-hollande-becomes-french-…  

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Alan Johnson and The Perennial American Hysteria? Or on Zizek The Magnificent

Professor Johnson may be British but he is adept at a faithful ventriloquism of the Cold War American specialty of hysterical anti-communism. And the thoughtful reader only viewed Rep. Alan West as just another No-Nothing political opportunist in the mode … Continue reading →

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Ross Douthat constructs a myth of decadence,with Japan at it’s center by Political Observer

The Ultramontane Catholic opinionator and Republican Conservative Ross Douthat , in his latest essay in the New York Times titled Incredible Shrinking Country, directs his attention to that once great engine of forward thinking and innovative Capital,Japan. An introduction is … Continue reading →

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